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Workers – men and women – of all countries, place yourselves under the banner of the Fourth Internat...

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Leon TrotskyThe Transitional Program for Socialist Revolution

The strangeness of the Barrayaran government system with all its unwritten customs, pressed on Corde...

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Lord X was a tyrant, not a revolutionary. He wanted to take over the system, not change it.

Feminism is a socialist, anti-family, political movement that encourages women to leave their husban...

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My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in...

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The only security men can have for their political liberty, consists in keeping their money in their...

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And yet we have what purports, or professes, or is claimed, to be a contract—the Constitution—made e...

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I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, ...

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An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Sitting at the table doesn't make you a diner, unless you eat some of what's on that plate. Being he...

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Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun.

I miss New York. I like the country and I like the people. However, the U.S. political and legal sys...

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There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.

We are faced with the fact, my friends, that tomorrow is today. Procrastination is still the thief o...

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Future generations are not going to ask us what political party were you in. They are going to ask w...

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If we ever hope to rid the world of the political AIDS of our time, terrorism, the rule must be clea...

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Genocide is not just a murderous madness; it is, more deeply, a politics that promises a utopia beyo...

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When we say, even in a global village, that all politics is local, we mean that national sovereignti...

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The things journalists should pay attention to are the issues the political leadership agrees on, ra...

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I say you don't need religion, or political ideology, to understand human nature. Science reveals th...

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The problem of Islam as a political force is an essential one for our time and for the years to come...

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Political Freedom without economic equality is a pretense, a fraud, a lie; and the workers want no l...

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History suggests that capitalism is a necessary condition for political freedom. Clearly it is not a...

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...because love is continual interrogation. I don't know of a better definition of love.(in that cas...

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Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of govern...

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Everybody now admits that apartheid was wrong, and all I did was tell the people who wanted to know ...

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To put a trillion dollars in context, if you spend a million dollars every day since Jesus was born,...

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I sincerely hope that they (relations between India and Pakistan) will be friendly and cordial. We h...

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No settlement with the majority is possible as no Hindu leader speaking with any authority shows any...

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You are free; you are free to go to your temples. You are free to go to your mosques or to any other...

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Do not forget that the armed forces are the servants of the people. You do not make national policy;...

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Inrealized how valuable the art and practice of writing letters are, and how important it is to remi...

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In the political system, we are a team; politics and bureaucracy, we are a team. The politicians, bu...

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First of all, I think it's odd that people who cover politics wouldn't have any political views.

Before that no one thought of us as colored-foreign maybe, exotic and dark, but not colored.

The unforgivable political sin is vanity the killer diet is sour grapes.

Tobey's a mellow, cool guy. He's just a good guy. I know that's not the answer you want, and I don't...

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Africans require, want, the franchise on the basis of one man one vote. They want political independ...

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I do not deny that I planned sabotage. I did not plan it in a spirit of recklessness nor because I h...

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We would fight not for the political future of a distant city, rather for principles whose destructi...

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Because I am much like Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, I'm such an unconventional political figure tha...

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It's all very well for us to sit here in the West with our high incomes and cushy lives, and say it'...

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Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty changes. The demand for...

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This gentleman evidently belonged to the category of those people who wish the Government to interfe...

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[I]f the citizens neglect their Duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon ...

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Concentration of wealth yields concentration of political power. And concentration of political powe...

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Both political parties have moved to the right during the neoliberal period. Today’s New Democrats a...

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Congressional Republicans are dismantling the limited environmental protections initiated by Richard...

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One of the best predictors of policy around is Thomas Ferguson's investment theory of politics, as h...

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I've been offered political shows before, and I don't know anything about politics and I feel uncomf...

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Why is it that all individuals today, at least all who are socially conscious, are in one way or ano...

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In this, then, lies their power of understanding--understanding, without words, what is authentic or...

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Oliver SacksThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales

I wanted to tell a romantic and dark side of Ottoman history that was also slightly political, sayin...

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It is not with architecture that one can disseminate any political ideology.

The main thing is to make history, not to write it

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down ...

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I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting.

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Pablo PicassoPicasso on Art: A Selection of Views

Patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which ...

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I'm not really a musician. I'm a performer, and I love rock n' roll. I've embraced rock n' roll beca...

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Civil and political rights are critical, but not often the real problem for the destitute sick. My p...

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You get one chance to do something about native title. You get perhaps one chance in your life to do...

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[Conventional wisdom] very heavily tends to reflect the preferences and the interests of the elite.

What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a...

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What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a...

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What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a...

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What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a...

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Everybody is a political person, whether you say something or you are silent. A political attitude i...

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… Without a sense of identity, there can be no real struggle…

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Paulo FreirePedagogy of the Oppressed

The US is the most wretchedly villainous state of all times. Anyone aware of global issues can easil...

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Before we aspire after theoretical perfection in the amelioration of our political state, it is nece...

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We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by b...

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For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state since styl...

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There is a need for financial reform along ethical lines that would produce in its turn an economic ...

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The opposite of liberal is stingy. The opposite of radical is superficial. The opposite of conservat...

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The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you wh...

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Things happened there that I don't think are the finest hours for anybody, whether it was a journali...

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I once said to my father, when I was a boy, 'Dad we need a third political party.' He said to me, 'I...

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Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good. 'Tis but one step more to...

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Are Latino-Americans white? Black? Other? Illegal aliens from Mars? Or are we the very face of Ameri...

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I hate all politics. I don't like either political party. One should not belong to them - one should...

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If you don't want a man unhappy politically, don't give him two sides of a question to worry him; gi...

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The comics that are just conversing with you up there and drawing on their own life, yeah, I guess s...

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A political party cannot have a religion. Only individuals can. Otherwise, you'd be exploiting relig...

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Similarly, gender-equality, supremacy of law, political participation, civil society, and transparen...

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There are times when every act, no matter how private or unconscious, becomes political. Whom you li...

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There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when i...

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It is a truism that almost any sect, cult, or religion will legislate its creed into law if it acqui...

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It only takes 20 years for a liberal to become a conservative without changing a single idea.

In this enlightened age, there are few I believe, but what will acknowledge, that slavery as an inst...

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Science fiction has always been a means for political comment. H.G. Wells' 'The War of the Worlds' w...

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If our faith is the most important part of our lives, then our religious views influence every other...

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Now this was one of the things I had been brought up to eschew like disgrace; it being held by my fa...

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When a finished work of 20th century sculpture is placed in an 18th century garden, it is absorbed b...

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Do you work for the government, any government?”"I pay taxes, which means I work for the government,...

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Setting a good example is a far better way to spread ideals than through force of arms.

A system of capitalism presumes sound money, not fiat money manipulated by a central bank. Capitalis...

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When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

Let the revolution begin.

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Ron PaulThe Revolution: A Manifesto

Socialists ignore the side of man that is the spirit. They can provide you shelter, fill your belly ...

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I really think that music itself, being one of the greatest possible vehicles for mass communication...

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